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Patent No.:
Date of Patent:
Mar. 29, 2011
Filed:
Dec. 06, 2006
Liang-yu (Tom) Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samantha Marie Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Liang-yu (Tom) Chi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Karon A. Weber, San Francisco, CA (US);
Samantha Marie Tripodi, San Francisco, CA (US);
Yahoo! Inc., Sunnyvale, CA (US);
Abstract
An apparatus and method for providing pre-cognitive delivery of in-context related information is disclosed herein. A user's expressed interest in a particular portion of a requested page and his/her requests for additional information relating to the particular portion are tracked. The tracked data permits determination of the content of in-context related information. For each of the particular portions of the requested page deemed to be of sufficient popularity, in-context information relating to each such particular portion is automatically provided to users along with the requested page.